Zora Neale Hurston’s Florida Home Being Turned Into An Education Center 

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Briona Lamback
August 19, 2025

Many Trump-era-inspired moves have tried erasing our history from museums, school curricula, and national parks. But we should celebrate the preservation of a critical piece of Black history: the last home of Zora Neale Hurston.

Zora Neale Hurston is a literary legend. The prolific writer and anthropologist is best known for her novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” She's also why we have documented stories from one of the last known survivors of the final slave ship to arrive in the U.S. Her legacy is long and incredibly important, and now a lost part of it is being preserved.

Hurston's modest Fort Pierce, Florida, home was purchased by the Conservation Fund and will become a public visitor and education center. The house has been a National Historic Landmark since 1991, but was in disrepair and at risk of being lost to development. This is a beautiful example of protecting Black history.

Black liberation is a long fight; if anyone knew it, Zora Neale Hurston did. Her stories and now her home have outlasted her. We must all remember that what we do now has the power to inspire and influence future generations of our people.

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